ENGL 253

Fall 2015 All Classes

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Topics in Lit and New Media

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to the role technological invention has played in history of print media and how literary aesthetics are changing with the advent of new media, such as software, video games, and graphic novels. We will consider material formats, genres, and modes of production along with the cultural, political, and societal implications of different forms and formats.

May be repeated in separate terms up to 6 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 253 class schedule data for fall 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	65156	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	131 English Building	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts course. Section Title: Literature and New Media Section Info: Literature and New Media: What does it mean to study literature at the start of the 21C? Are print and its major aesthetic forms archaic or simply mutating? What?s at stake in the shift from analog to digital representation? What was ?a reader??and what will reading be in twenty or a hundred years? To get at these questions, we will read conventional literary forms (like poems and novels) and consider the ways these genres have historically been consumed. But we will also look at photographs, watch movies, play video games, use apps, and navigate webpages. The mode and moment in which a ?text? is produced and consumed will, in this way, become an important part of how we think about what literature was, is, and might be in our contemporary context. Our anchor text will be Frankenstein?and we will get more digital from there, exploring iterations, both analog and digital, of the monster we call technology.